I installed Firefox browser in KDE, when I browse some sites, it pops
up missing plug-in and I click to install the plug-in, it responded
with installation finished and you need to restart firefox to make it
works.

Even I restarted the Firefox, the missing plug-in pop up is still there
and I cannot browse the site with that plug-in.

Any ideas how to really install the plug-in ?

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DC wrote:
> I installed Firefox browser in KDE, when I browse some sites, it pops
> up missing plug-in and I click to install the plug-in, it responded
> with installation finished and you need to restart firefox to make it
> works.
>
> Even I restarted the Firefox, the missing plug-in pop up is still there
> and I cannot browse the site with that plug-in.
>
> Any ideas how to really install the plug-in ?

I just downloaded and installed Sun's JRE from sun's website and
installed that. In the JRE folder thier is a directory call plugin that
I created a sybolic link to in the mozilla-firefox plug in directory.

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howto create a symbolic link ?

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DC wrote:
> howto create a symbolic link ?
>

man ln

specifically, ln -s [target] [link]

eg (as root):
ln -s /path/to/java/plugin-filename.so
/path/to/mozilla-firefox/plugins/plugin-filename.so

shannon

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Thank you for your reply. I don't know why but I cannot find the
plugins directory under Mozilla-firefox.

I installed a package according to instructions below :

http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux...1.4-status.html

And it works afterward. I browse through the mozill-firefox directory
again, still cannot see plugins subdirectory. Not sure why.

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DC wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. I don't know why but I cannot find the
> plugins directory under Mozilla-firefox.
>
> I installed a package according to instructions below :
>
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux...1.4-status.html
>
> And it works afterward. I browse through the mozill-firefox directory
> again, still cannot see plugins subdirectory. Not sure why.
>

-assuming your home directory is called DC

Your local mozilla plugin dir is
/home/DC/.mozilla/plugins

Your global mozilla plugins dir is
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins

I installed SUN Java under /usr/lib/j2rexxxx (later, as root, I renamed
the directory to /usr/lib/java)

Then linked to my local and global plugins dir (you only need to link to
one or the other)

to link to local (as normal user)

ln -s /usr/lib/java/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/DC/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

to link to global (as root)

ln -s /usr/lib/java/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Then as root, ln -s /usr/lib/java/bin/java /usr/bin/java

Now your path to the Java exec is /usr/bin/java or simply java

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On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:31:25 -0600, zekolas wrote:

> I just downloaded and installed Sun's JRE from sun's website and
> installed that. In the JRE folder thier is a directory call plugin that
> I created a sybolic link to in the mozilla-firefox plug in directory.

The best thing you can do is unleash "java-package" on it. It will make
configuring things easier and less messy.

--
Frank Van Damme

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